Help your EL students use linking words to write similes!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Similes with Linking Words.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Similes with Linking Words.

Learners will practice identifying and decoding figurative language as they read and decipher five practice sentences.

Practice using onomatopoeia like hiss, squeak, and boom in this fun language puzzle!

Having fun with words and sounds! Extend your students’ experience with onomatopoeia by giving them words to sort and asking them to identify how an author could use specific words in their writing.

These 24 cards will introduce your students to common sound words!

Students will learn to identify personification using nouns and verbs as signal words!

Give your students a case of the giggles with twelve funny pun cards that use similar sounding words and phrases to create double meaning.

Oxymorons are seriously fun business! Your fifth graders will have fun making oxymorons by matching contradictory words, as well as crafting unique sentences as they practice using these antithetical phrases in their writing.

Use this activity to help students find and decipher metaphors in the context of short passages. Students will read the passages, record what is being compared in each, and then seek to explain the metaphors' meanings in their own words.

An oxymoron is a figure of speech made up of words with very different meanings. In this creative writing activity, students will put their figurative language skills to the test as they craft a story using some catchy contradictory phrases!

Why is the math book so sad? It has too many problems! Help your students bring puns to life by having them create visuals to represent the play on words. Kids will have a blast reading the puns and making their own illustrations to accompany them.

Challenge your students to find the definitions of each homograph that give these puns their double meaning.

Clap, splash, and zoom with this onomatopoeia crossword puzzle tailored for fourth and fifth graders!

Determine the appropriate onomatopoeia for different situations in this engaging puzzle!

Crash into onomatopoeia practice in this engaging worksheet!

Learn onomatopoeia while you experience an exciting video game quest!

Children are introduced to Tennyson the Turtle, a reptile who likes to use metaphors and similes, in this appealing worksheet!

In this fun worksheet, students will get to practice using both homophones and homonyms as they identify and write puns!

Help your students practice using two antonyms to create an oxymoron.

Have fun with hyperbole in this funny fill-in story-writing worksheet!

After completing this worksheet, you’ll know oxymorons inside out!